formulation

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

formulation (countable and uncountable, plural formulations)

1. The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.
   1. A particular linguistic construction; a turn of phrase.

      The formulation with the bare infinitive was somewhat less common.

2. (medicine) A medicinal preparation.

   If you liked our old shampoo, you'll love the new kinder, gentler formulation.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:definition

Derived terms

• bioformulation
• coformulation
• formulational
• misformulation
• nanoformulation
• nonformulation
• preformulation
• reformulation

Related terms

• formula
• formulate

Translations

act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula

• Bulgarian: формулиране n (formulirane), изразяване (bg) n (izrazjavane), редакция (bg) f (redakcija)
• Catalan: formulació f
• Czech: formulace f
• Esperanto: formulado
• French: formulation (fr) f
• Indonesian: formulasi (id), perumusan (id)
• Italian: formulazione (it) f
• Japanese: 定式化 (ja) (teishikika)
• Malay: perumusan
• Portuguese: formulação f
• Romanian: formulare (ro)
• Russian: формули́рование (ru) n (formulírovanije)
• Slovene: formulácija f
• Spanish: formulación (es) f
• Turkish: formüle etme

French

Etymology

From formuler +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔʁ.my.la.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

• Homophone: formulations

Noun

formulation f (plural formulations)

1. wording, phrasing
2. formulation

Synonyms

• tournure

Further reading

• “formulation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012